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A SCIFI JAPAN EXCLUSIVE

Godzilla meets his greatest adversary of all time — the impossible tortures of Hell!

IDW Publishing has provided SciFi Japan with an exclusive preview (including HUGE high-res scans) of their Godzilla in Hell trade paperback. Available from comic shops and retailers Wednesday, February 17th, the book collects all five issues of the comic book mini-series in which the King of the Monsters wanders across the underworld to do battle with the impossible. Each issue is by a different creative team that includes award-winning illustrator Bob Eggleton, James Stokoe (Godzilla: Half Century War) and Dave Wachter (Godzilla: Cataclysm).

About IDW Publishing

IDW is an award-winning publisher of comic books, graphic novels and trade paperbacks, based in San Diego, California. Renowned for its diverse catalog of licensed and independent titles, IDW publishes some of the most successful and popular titles in the industry, including: Hasbro’s The TRANSFORMERS and G.I. JOE, Paramount’s Star Trek; HBO’s True Blood; the BBC’s DOCTOR WHO; Toho’s Godzilla; and comics and trade collections based on novels by worldwide bestselling author, James Patterson. IDW is also home to the Library of American Comics imprint, which publishes classic comic reprints; Yoe! Books, a partnership with Yoe! Studio.

IDW’s critically- and fan-acclaimed series are continually moving into new mediums. Currently, Warner Brothers and Barry Sonnenfeld are attached to adapt LORE into a feature film starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Jerry Bruckheimer Films and Disney are creating a feature film based on World War Robot, with Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes and Sony bringing Zombies vs. Robots to film.

About Toho Co., Ltd.

Founded in 1932 and headquartered in Tokyo, Toho Company, Ltd. is one of the leading entertainment conglomerates in Japan. Toho is best known worldwide as the producer of twenty-eight Godzilla motion pictures, based upon a character the company unleashed on the world back in 1954, and masterpiece films directed by Akira Kurosawa. Toho has been the number one distributor of motion pictures in Japan (both domestic and foreign) for eight consecutive years since 2003. The company is also, throughout Japan, the leading producer of theatrical works and one of the largest owners of office buildings and theaters.

For more information on IDW’s Godzilla comics, please see the previous coverage here on SciFi Japan: